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Originally Posted by Silock

I never identify with my avatars. They're always just a means to an end for me. So, I go for eye candy, which is generally female.

I think that's pretty normal for gamers these days. MMOs stopped being "MMORPG"s years ago, and I don't think the console market (which is by far the focus of game development now) has ever had any kind of focus on immersion in the roleplaying sense, even in the console RPG market, with their predominantly eastern (as in asian) influence. Everything is focused on min-maxing.

I'm sort of the other end of the spectrum. I have the hardest time naming my characters, because I want it to be something good, and if it's an MMO I always go with the default character, because if I don't, the game looks wrong to me. Which in one sense is weird, because I'm taking the characters role, but I'm not literally thinking of my actual self in that role. It's more about me being the character, but doing the things I would do (I almost always play 'good'). I think part of the reason I've so rarely had female avatars is the simple fact that so few games have female protagonists.

Either way, I always have the hardest time with MMO avatars, getting exactly what I want, because that character is who I'm going to be until the time I stop playing the game...

I'm already having a freaking nervous breakdown trying to come up with names for all my toons.